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Hi there, back to MInt after a couple of years absence and finding it hard to remember things - never got past the newbie stage anyway.Trying to install an Edup EP-MS1552 USB wireless Lan adapter.Getting very slow connection and frequent password requests. Mint (14) seems to be using the rt2800usb driver whereas the chipset is, I believe, Ralink 5372.How can I install the correct drivers? Is it possible to install drivers from CD?

Ok, so its ID is 148f:5372? Ralink RT5372 indeed. (You can't always trust device IDs, sometimes a number visible in the ID is a bit different from the actual chip number, but in this case they are the same)

Support for the RT5372 in the preinstalled rt2800usb driver is quite new so it may not be fully working yet - Mint 14 is the first Mint version to have RT5372 support preinstalled. We can try installing a newer version of rt2800usb. Usually rt2800usb is of better quality than Ralink's own drivers, so I prefer trying this first.

The CD on the driver is the vendor-provided driver which may be of lower quality. To compile that driver you also need linux-headers and probably build-essential too. You can connect to wired ethernet and then install the packages from Software Manager.

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The computer is quite a distance from the modem - way too far for any cabling I've got - would it not be reasonable to at least try the drivers on the CD? If I could get connected using them then I could easily connect with the repositories for better ones?The situation is that this is on a computer which is wired to a fair amount of studio equipment and I really don't want to move it just to get an ethernet connection. I don't really want internet on my DAW at all but I'm collaborating with musicians in other countries using dropbox so I need to get a way of down/uploading efficiently. My feeling is this: I'd like to try the drivers on the CD, if they work I'll try imroved ones from the repositories, if they don't work I guess I may have to turn to Windows.